When Setting Criteria for Behavior Change, Behavior Analysts Attempt to Implement

question 119

Multiple Choice

When setting criteria for behavior change, behavior analysts attempt to implement the simplest mode of intervention necessary to elicit the desired outcome. As such, the identified outcome criteria should be

• A) applied to ecological assessments to generalize skills.
• B) developed prior to the identified intervention.
• C) initially broad in focus with subsequent reduction to a target response.
• D) measured independent of practice effects or reactivity.

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